Featured work: “Submerged IV - L’eco delle Città Perdute” /160x120 cm

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Heike Lin Triebel’s new painting extends the immersive cycle Submerged - Sancta Profunda, where memory and oblivion flow together in layers of pigment, gauze and light.

 

The composition reveals a swimmer with arms outstretched, her body forming an unplanned circle, an ancient symbol of wholeness and protection. She becomes both witness and guardian, carrying the silent weight of remembrance.

 

Amidst the ruins of Palmyra, a gondolier appears deep within an archway, a fragile echo of Venice, world heritage still alive yet already threatened. Palmyra, the city erased, becomes the ambassador of loss. Venice, still breathing, becomes the warning of what may vanish.

 

Even in the swimmer’s hand, a mark emerges, like the trace of a nail: a gesture of sacrifice, of resistance, of fragile endurance.

 

This painting gathers the essence of the Submerged trilogy, disappearance, remembrance, the cycle of water, into a single circular sanctuary. It speaks of what must be preserved before it is lost, of the fragile soul of a vanishing world.